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Sell More Books: Amazon Marketing and Promotion Strategies
You've spent hours creating your story, now it's time to make sure the millions of people who visit Amazon every day can find it.
If you need help with the complicated and frustrating process of increasing your online visibility, I can help. Here is some of the information you'll get:
Detailed instructions to fine-tune your product description.
Up-to-date information to choose the appropriate categories.
Specific directions to find the correct keywords.
Help setting up your Amazon Author Page.
Guaranteed ways to get more reviews.
Help using Kindle Promotions, including links to over 35 sites that will list your eBook free.
Tips for marketing your eBook on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, & other social media sites.
So, if you're new to eBook marketing or just want to learn some new tips, let's Sell More Books!
If you need help with the complicated and frustrating process of increasing your online visibility, I can help. Here is some of the information you'll get:
Detailed instructions to fine-tune your product description.
Up-to-date information to choose the appropriate categories.
Specific directions to find the correct keywords.
Help setting up your Amazon Author Page.
Guaranteed ways to get more reviews.
Help using Kindle Promotions, including links to over 35 sites that will list your eBook free.
Tips for marketing your eBook on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, & other social media sites.
So, if you're new to eBook marketing or just want to learn some new tips, let's Sell More Books!
40 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Jim Liston
7 books33 followersJim Liston grew up in the wild 70s in St. Louis, Missouri. A musician all of his life, he spent most of his early adult years traveling as a drummer in rock bands. He currently plays the mandolin and is part of a bluegrass duo with his wife.
"Sell More Books: Amazon Marketing and Promotion Strategies" Updated Version February 2015 - Now with links to 50 websites to promote your Kindle "Free Days!" available at http://amazon.com/dp/B00HUZNRXA
"You've spent hours creating your story, now it's time to make sure the millions of people who visit Amazon every day can find it."
He has been helping indie authors promote their books and the positive feedback has encouraged him to set up his promotion and marketing website at: http://jimsgotweb.com/
Read his first collection of short stories, free on Amazon:
"Invasion of Privacy and Other Short Stories."
http://amazon.com/dp/B00EBATCTU
For an updated listing of free and discounted eBooks, visit his new website at http://newfreekindlebooks.com
For more information, or to just say hi, email him, jim@jimsgotweb.com.
"Sell More Books: Amazon Marketing and Promotion Strategies" Updated Version February 2015 - Now with links to 50 websites to promote your Kindle "Free Days!" available at http://amazon.com/dp/B00HUZNRXA
"You've spent hours creating your story, now it's time to make sure the millions of people who visit Amazon every day can find it."
He has been helping indie authors promote their books and the positive feedback has encouraged him to set up his promotion and marketing website at: http://jimsgotweb.com/
Read his first collection of short stories, free on Amazon:
"Invasion of Privacy and Other Short Stories."
http://amazon.com/dp/B00EBATCTU
For an updated listing of free and discounted eBooks, visit his new website at http://newfreekindlebooks.com
For more information, or to just say hi, email him, jim@jimsgotweb.com.
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February 11, 2014
After recently venturing into the Indie writing market, I was on the lookout for an easy to use reference to help with marketing strategy. This book reads like a one-stop-shopping experience for anyone looking for marketing advice. Not only does the writer provide insights and examples, but he has listed dozens of useful links for a variety of different sites that can be of benefit. I think that is my favorite part. As a very busy writer and freelance editor I have precious little extra time to do the legwork. Thankfully the author, Jim Liston, has done all that for me, and it's not just a random list, these are sites he has used and recommends.
It was a quick and easy read that is set up in such a way that the reader can go back and easily reference individual areas to focus on. I especially appreciated the insights provided as to the author's own experiences of what works and what not to waste time on.
I had been viewing marketing as a necessary evil, but after reading this book I am actually excited to try the new suggestions as well as confident in my abilities after seeing that I was already implementing some of them.
I highly recommend this guide to any writer that wants to take an honest approach to helping their book succeed in the vast and often ambiguous waters of publishing.
It was a quick and easy read that is set up in such a way that the reader can go back and easily reference individual areas to focus on. I especially appreciated the insights provided as to the author's own experiences of what works and what not to waste time on.
I had been viewing marketing as a necessary evil, but after reading this book I am actually excited to try the new suggestions as well as confident in my abilities after seeing that I was already implementing some of them.
I highly recommend this guide to any writer that wants to take an honest approach to helping their book succeed in the vast and often ambiguous waters of publishing.
February 4, 2014
The hard part of writing a successful book used to be in the writing, but not anymore. Nowadays that’s the easy bit. The hard part is now in the marketing and selling the book. After all, what is the point of writing a book at all if no one ever knows of its existence?
"Sell More Books - Amazon Promotion and Marketing Strategies" by Jim Liston is a short ebook designed to help you do just that.
If you are an experienced marketeer and social media operator you will probably know most of the strategies included here, but if you are something of a beginner, a definite marketing greenhorn like me, then the advice and instruction included within can be very useful indeed.
After all, you will only need to sell an additional book or two by using these ideas to cover the cost of the book, and you should comfortably be able to do that.
Among topics covered in the book are:
Writing powerful descriptions of yourself and your books.
Choosing categories to place your books to their best advantage.
Finding competitive keywords – for some reason this is always a tough one for me
Completing and improving your Amazon author page.
Getting and receiving book reviews.
Using your free days to their best advantage.
How best to run your Kindle countdown promotions.
Participating in social media, including at least one that I had never heard of.
Price Pulsing, another phrase that has completely passed me by.
This is a short but well written book, and it’s easy to follow and very useful, and one I most certainly will use to hopefully improve my own book sales performance, and one I am happy to recommend.
July 12, 2016
Jim Liston does a great service to indie writers by pulling back the curtain of Amazon’s workings and sharing his knowledge on selling books more effectively through this huge online publisher. This is a short, no-frills read that feels like a collection of short articles. I would warn that his book may be a challenge for new writers who are not already at least familiar with the basic functioning of Amazon. Jim jumps right in and starts digging down into keywords, categories, KDP Select and more. In other words, this book won’t hold your hand.
Liston’s book was a good fit for me. I’ve been publishing on Amazon for a few years and was able to follow along quite well. I felt that most of the material in his book is covered in more detail in David Gaughran’s “Let’s Get Visible”, but Liston’s short book served as a useful refresher for me and a welcomed kick in the pants to continue experimenting on Amazon and carefully observing the results.
Perhaps the greatest value this book offers is in the resources Liston includes to top-tier advertising websites for authors, Facebook groups, review swapping sites and more. I already know that I will go to go back to these resources again and again. The resources alone make this book worth its very reasonable (current) price of $0.99.
Liston’s book was a good fit for me. I’ve been publishing on Amazon for a few years and was able to follow along quite well. I felt that most of the material in his book is covered in more detail in David Gaughran’s “Let’s Get Visible”, but Liston’s short book served as a useful refresher for me and a welcomed kick in the pants to continue experimenting on Amazon and carefully observing the results.
Perhaps the greatest value this book offers is in the resources Liston includes to top-tier advertising websites for authors, Facebook groups, review swapping sites and more. I already know that I will go to go back to these resources again and again. The resources alone make this book worth its very reasonable (current) price of $0.99.
January 22, 2014
Sell More Books is a concise, informative guide to the Self-Published Author's journey through the sometimes confusing land of Kindle Direct Publishing. But more than that, Jim Liston knows his stuff and has tricks to help us get our books on the top ten lists at Amazon Books. As the author of a booklet on KDP free days (for sale on Amazon) I was pretty confident Sell More Books wouldn't tell me anything new. It did, and then some. What the heck is Empire Avenue? I wasn't sure, but signed up last night and can see where it could be a fantastic marketing tool to get readers.
Have you ever wondered how you get in certain categories on KDP? Jim explains how to get the most visibility out of KDP using keywords and implementing searches that land you in a smaller category where you're likely to rise to the top of the list.
If you self-published and aren't sure how to get the most out of KDP, this one-hour read is for you. If you self-published and think you know it all, I guarantee you don't. Get it and see. Don't read it before sleep though. You'll be too fired up after to lose consciousness.
Have you ever wondered how you get in certain categories on KDP? Jim explains how to get the most visibility out of KDP using keywords and implementing searches that land you in a smaller category where you're likely to rise to the top of the list.
If you self-published and aren't sure how to get the most out of KDP, this one-hour read is for you. If you self-published and think you know it all, I guarantee you don't. Get it and see. Don't read it before sleep though. You'll be too fired up after to lose consciousness.
January 18, 2014
When author Jim Liston asked me to review his book, Sell More Books: Amazon Promotion and Marketing Strategies, I agreed though I thought it would just be a rehash of everything I have read before. You see, as a self published author, I read whatever I can get my hands on in order to increase my book sales. I was wrong though.
Sell More Books: Amazon Promotion and Marketing Strategies has some of the hints and strategies I have learned before but there are additional “tweeks” I missed. Tweeks I hope will increase my sales. It is a valuable addition to the libraries of authors everywhere.
Liston writes in a fast, easy to read manner, which almost anyone can follow. No fluff, he just states the facts. I highly recommend this book.
I was given a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
Sell More Books: Amazon Promotion and Marketing Strategies has some of the hints and strategies I have learned before but there are additional “tweeks” I missed. Tweeks I hope will increase my sales. It is a valuable addition to the libraries of authors everywhere.
Liston writes in a fast, easy to read manner, which almost anyone can follow. No fluff, he just states the facts. I highly recommend this book.
I was given a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
February 16, 2014
A wonderful informative and useful read.
When author Jim asked me to review his book, “Sell more books: Amazon promotion and Marketing Strategies”, I was first reluctant to agree. But then I thought, well, why not. And so, here I am reading a very good strategy about promoting and marketing.
I didn’t know what to expect because I have read several books about Marketing and promotion before. Will it be another of these I know all about?
Surprisingly there were many other aspects I didn’t know about but know now.
It’s a very handy book, a book you have to keep and read it again and again, because you will forget things for marketing of your books.
I thought the advice for getting reviews was very good and I will follow it.
Thank you Jim for giving me the opportunity to read your book.
When author Jim asked me to review his book, “Sell more books: Amazon promotion and Marketing Strategies”, I was first reluctant to agree. But then I thought, well, why not. And so, here I am reading a very good strategy about promoting and marketing.
I didn’t know what to expect because I have read several books about Marketing and promotion before. Will it be another of these I know all about?
Surprisingly there were many other aspects I didn’t know about but know now.
It’s a very handy book, a book you have to keep and read it again and again, because you will forget things for marketing of your books.
I thought the advice for getting reviews was very good and I will follow it.
Thank you Jim for giving me the opportunity to read your book.
August 11, 2016
I wish I had time for a longer review about how helpful this tiny book is but for a new author it brought a ton of clarity to the Amazon search. There are many ebooks on how to manipulate Amazon's search and even Google's but Jim Liston teaches you how to give your book the best chance from within the walls of Amazon itself. After studying so much redundant information as an indie author it really surprised me that there was so much I hadn't done within my author page, my description and my category choice. "Sell More Books: Amazon Marketing and Promotion Strategies" made me get serious about "cleaning up my house" so-to-speak and I am happy to have purchased it.
January 20, 2014
How wonderful to have such great marketing tools listed so concisely into chapters. Loved the hyperlinks as I could look at sites mentioned in book as I was reading through. A great tool to use. Not so much as a "how to" in each area but more detailing the areas to be used for marketing, pointing you in the right direction so you can go and enquire in more detail from the mentioned links when you have time. Well worth the download. Couple of new pointers I was not aware of that I will now try out.
January 17, 2014
Who knows? Jim knows, that's who. Why would you want to read Jim's tips and advice on marketing? Quite simply, a guy who can get a number #1 seller in the kindle store must know what he is talking about. To be able to write a book is one thing, but the marketing strategies is a whole new ball game for most authors (which I am). Jim introduced me to some gems of links, such as Empire Ave and Promocave, that I had never heard of. A highly recommended read.
February 19, 2014
Liston's straight to the point style is refreshing. The marketing tips are great for new indie authors ready to market their book on Amazon. Great examples and links to fantastic resources. I will be sure to use the tips in this handy book!
March 26, 2014
Great ideas
I am going to these ideas right into use. Some of the information is a rehashing of other Amazon marketing books, but about half of them are new or updated concepts.
I am going to these ideas right into use. Some of the information is a rehashing of other Amazon marketing books, but about half of them are new or updated concepts.
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